Improvement in faucets



ttited tant @tutti @mire ASA EeeLESToN, 0E EALL EIVEE, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent N 104,128, dated June 14, 1870.

IMPRQVEMENT' IN FAUCBTS.

The VSchedule referred toin these Letters Patent and making part o the same I, ASA EGeLEsToN, of Fall River, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Faucets and Molasses-Gates, of which the following is a specification.

Nature and Object of Invention..

The nature and object of my inventionjare to combine cogs and teeth with a slide and roller or sonrething answering the same purpose, in such a manner that, by raising or depressing the handle by the action oi' the cogs on .the teeth, the gate or slide will move up and down in a groove -made for the purpose, as

much or as little as the operator may choose.

Description of Accompanying Drawing. The solid lines and drawing represent the faucet or gate as it will appear when `shut or closed.

The dotted lines represent it as it will appear when open.

General Description.

N O I It represent the frame of the gate or faucet, which may be composed of one solid piece, or be made of pieces fastened together. It has grooves on each side, in which the slide or gate moves up and down.

Erepresents the slide or gate, with teeth or cogs on vone side into which the teeth or cgs on the handle B are fitted. Y

When the handle B is depressed to C, theV slide or gate E is lifted to D, as shown by the dotted lines, the bottom of the slide being then at the line S T, and the aperture L, through which the liquid pours, being uncovered.

K represents a small wheel or roller put there for the double purpose of holding the slide or gate E in position against the tendency ofthe handle B to push i is raised for the purpose of use.

A represents the tube to be inserted into the vessel from -which the liquor or material is to he drawn.

v Claim.

I claim as my invention- The teeth or cogs on the slide E and handle A, in combination with the roller or wheel K, and the grooves in which the said slide E moves, substantially and Vfor the purpose herein'before set forth.

ASA EGGLESTON.

lWitnesses LEONARD N. SLADE, JAMES MMORTON, Jr. 

